True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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